In lieu of chapter names

This morning, with fog lifting and coffee in hand and tummy, I sit down to write the end of Chapter 33 in THE EIGHT-FOOT BOY. My word count ended last night and begins this morning at 42,006.

I’ve had difficulty coming up with Chapter names with this book – for an unexplained, not understood reason – so all my Chapters start with a big number center top page. This seems a common device in many novels, but I want and hope to arrive at a proper title for each Chapter.

"The novelist’s greatest joy is to write the novel, but the novel’s joy lies in the mind of its reader." -- Carley Eason Evans

"A novel is not designed to sit on a shelf; rather, a novel is crafted for the hands of the reader. The reader is meant to open its cover and bend back its pages and make its insides come to life." -- Carley Eason Evans